An outbreak of avian flu that has infected specific dairy cows in at least six US states and a farmworker in Texas has become a cause for worry in the medical world, with some global experts even raising concerns that it could be “getting dangerously close” to triggering a pandemic “100 times worse than COVID-19”.According to the US Centre for Disease Control (CDC), which sequenced the virus genome from a specimen collected from the patient in Texas, the flu was caused by the highly pathogenic avian influenza A (H5N1) – a virus similar to the HAI A(H5N1) pathogen infecting cattle, wild birds, and poultry in some parts of the country.